FSU removing office phones to save money

11:22 PM,
Jul. 7, 2009

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If a Florida State University student needs to reach his English professor, he better have the teacher's cell-phone number.

In a cost-saving move that illustrates just how dire the budget situation has become at FSU, the English department is in the process of removing almost all faculty members' office phones. The History and Modern Languages & Linguistics departments are taking similar steps.

"I've never seen anything like this before," English department chairman Ralph Berry said. "It's difficult to have an office and no phone. ...